Parys is a resort town in northern Free State province, South Africa. It is situated on the southern bank of the Vaal River. The name is the Afrikaans translation of Paris. The origin of the name 'Parys' is attributed to German surveyor Schilbach, who named it after the city of Paris because of the similarity between its location next to the Vaal River and that of Paris on the River Seine. The area of Parys also includes the two townships of Tumahole and Schonkenville.
Laurette A. J. Onkelinx is a Belgian politician from the Francophone Socialist Party. She was the Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health in the Belgian federal government, i.e., the Di Rupo Government, which took office on 6 December 2011.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Belgium are regarded as some of the most progressive in Europe and the world. In 2023, ILGA-Europe ranked Belgium as second in the European Union for LGBT rights protection, behind Malta. In 2024, ILGA-Europe ranked Belgium the third highest after Malta and Iceland.
Charles Jean Emmanuel Janssen was a Belgian liberal deputy of Walloon Brabant. He was the son of Emmanuel Janssen and Paule Van Parys. He was married to Marie-Anne Boël, daughter of the Vice-president of the Belgian Senate Pol Boël. Together they had three children: Paul-Emmanuel Janssen, Eric Janssen, and Daniel Janssen.
Maurice Auguste, Count Lippens was a noble Belgian businessman, politician, and colonial civil servant and lawyer.
Jean (Jan) Marie Joseph, Baron Van Houtte was a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1952 to 1954.
Mathias Hubert Paul Cormann is a Belgian-born Australian politician and diplomat who currently serves as Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), having assumed the office on 1 June 2021.
Remixes is a compilation of French singer Mylène Farmer's singles by various famous DJs, including JXL, Felix Da Housecat and Paul Oakenfold.
Georges Van Parys was a French composer of film music and operettas. Among his musical influences were the group Les Six, Maurice Ravel, and Claude Debussy. Later in his career he served as vice-president of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique. He is buried in the cemetery at Villiers-sur-Marne.
Van Parys is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Germaine Van Parys, also Van Parijs, (1893–1983) was a Belgian photojournalist. She was the first woman in Belgium to join the profession, which was very unusual to find a woman mentioned in the history of photography before 1920s. She left an extensive collection covering the people and places she photographed from 1918 to 1968, documenting key events in the country's history.
Ronald G. Parys was an American politician who was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate.
Emma Lauwers, known as Lea Rue, is a Belgian singer-songwriter and entrepreneur.
The Rubens family is a Flemish noble family that lived in Antwerp.
Annelies Van Parys is a Belgian classical composer of chamber music, symphonic music, music for theatre productions and opera.
Events in the year 1958 in Belgium.
East Flanders is one of the 11 multi-member constituencies of the Chamber of Representatives, the lower house of the Belgian Federal Parliament, the national legislature of Belgium. The constituency was established in 2003 following the re-organisation of constituencies across Belgium along provincial lines. It is conterminous with the province of East Flanders. The constituency currently elects 20 of the 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2019 federal election the constituency had 1,155,734 registered electors.
The following lists events that happened during 1922 in the Belgian Congo.
Cieltje Van Achter is a Belgian lawyer and politician and a member of the New Flemish Alliance party.
Lorin Parys is a Belgian politician and lawyer affiliated to the New Flemish Alliance party.
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